Book Review: “Is Voting for Young People?” (2E) by Martin Wattenberg Watternberg‚ Martin. Is Voting for Young People? With a Postscript on Citizen Engagement‚ 2nd edition. Harlow: Longman‚ 2007. In this concise work of political science‚ Professor Wattenberg of UC Irvine sketches the outline of a potentially serious problem facing modern democracies: the ever-declining political awareness and participation among youth. Wattenberg analyzes election surveys and public opinion polls in order to ascertain
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TDA 2.9: Support Children and Young people’s positive behaviour 1. Know the policies and procedures of the setting for promoting children and young people’s behaviour 1.1 Describe the policies and procedures of the setting relevant to promoting children and young people’s behaviour • Behaviour policy • Anti-bullying policy • Dealing with conflict and inappropriate behaviour • Rewards and sanctions Behaviour policy the behaviour policy is a guideline to staff on how pupils should behave. It is important
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Political Science 298 Book Review November 6th‚ 2012 Danny Fitzpatrick Is Voting For Young People? The main point according Martin P. Wattenberg in Is Voting For Young People is that young people today do not vote during elections as much compared to other voting groups. Young people today are politically unengaged. “These state patterns of voting participation can be confirmed on the national level by the Census Bureau’s 2010 survey data. Among U
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Unit title : Understand child young person development 1.1 Explain the difference between sequence of development and rate of development and why the difference is important. It is important to know the difference between the sequence and the rate of development as it gives us direction when it comes to monitoring child/young persons needs during stages of their school years. We can then plan effectively to make sure the child receives the help and support they need in areas they could
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care worker I have a duty of care to every young person that I work with. This means that I have to keep the safety of the young person as the top priority in everything that I do. I do this by making sure that I keep within the barriers of confidentiality‚ keeping aware of the risks that are all around by doing risk assessments‚ reporting any concerns that I have to the on call duty manager and ensuring I maintain professional boundaries with all young people by not allowing them to make unhealthy attachments
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Page 1 Unit 505 Working in Partnership in Health and Social Care 1 Understand Partnership working Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) – We have inspectors who keep a check on our home they are responsible for inspecting social care and social services to make sure that they are safe for the people who use them. They are the regulator for social care and social services in Wales‚ from child minders and nurseries to homes for older people. They aim to: Provide independent assurance
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Policies and procedures are put into place to protect children and young people but also the adults/staff who work with them in the setting‚ it is very important that all professionals within the work place follow safe working practices to make sure that not only the children and young people are protected but also themselves and their colleagues. E.g. if a disclosure is made by either a child or young person to a member of the staff within the setting it is vital that the information they have trusted
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Mu.5.4 Develop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding of children and young people 1 Understand the impact of current legislations that underpins the safeguarding of children and young people. 1.1 Outline the current legislation that underpins the safeguarding of children and young people within own UK home nation. The current legislations for safeguarding children are: The United Nations Convention on the rights of the child 1989 (UN 1989) was ratified by the UK on the
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When working with children you should be aware of all possible social‚ economic and cultural factors which may impact on the upbringing of children and young people attending the school setting. These factors are issues within society which will or can affect children or young people’s lives at some point. The social factors that can impact on a child’s upbringing are; • Poor parental supervision/neglect. Without guidance children do not learn the correct ways to behave. This will cause them
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UNIT MU 2.4 CONTRIBUTE TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE´S HEALTH AND SAFETY 1 KNOW THE HELTH AND SAFETY POLICIES OF THE WORK SETTING. The policy of my work setting is to provide and maintain safe and healthy working conditions‚ equipment and systems of work for all employees and safe environment for the children to be cared and educated in. The policies also give all members of staff guidelines on how to manage situations and what safety equipment should be used to protect employees at all the
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